Boismortier - Sonatas for 2 Flutes
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96121
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th October 2020
Contents
Works
Sonates (6) a 2 flutes traversieres sans basse, op.1Artists
Fabiano Martignago (recorder)Luca Ventimiglia (recorder)
Works
Sonates (6) a 2 flutes traversieres sans basse, op.1Artists
Fabiano Martignago (recorder)Luca Ventimiglia (recorder)
About
Boismortier’s duets reflect the rhetorical principle of elegant and refined conversation, a musical translation of intimate dialogue between two equals, neither of which is ever reduced to the role of mere accompaniment. The prevailing rule is imitation or agreement: when a theme is stated by one player it is taken over by the other and developed, never challenged or opposed. Even the three duets in his first published collection, Op.1, provide ample proof of Boismortier’s lively creative spirit as well as his skill in counterpoint, designed to attract professional players keen to show off their technical and expressive expertise.
The movement titles within each duet may encapsulate French dance forms – Gavotte, Allemande, Courante and so on – but Boismortier was far too cultivated and cosmopolitan a musician not to absorb influences from farther afield. His contrapuntal style makes him the French equivalent of Telemann, and the busy passagework recall the violin writing of Italian Baroque masters such as Corelli and Geminiani.
From the Op.8 collection of sonatas, Fabiano Martignago and Luca Ventimiglia include an example which demonstrates the composer’s mastery of long, languid forms as well as his typically concise and sunny pieces. They have also transcribed a sonata from Boismortier’s Op.40 collection originally devised for lower-pitched melody instruments such as bassoons and cellos; in their hands it speaks with no less courtly elegance as the summation of the French Baroque instrumental idiom.
Fabiano Martignago and Luca Ventimiglia are a pair of Italian early-music specialists who have contributed to several Brilliant Classics albums between them and worked with many of the luminaries in their field such as Stefano Bagliano, Manuel Staropoli and Lorenzo Casavanti, names familiar from many other Brilliant collections of Baroque-era rarities.
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